Month: July 2013

Complain about high price Shops and malls in the city were seen crowded with Eid shoppers on Friday buying new dresses and other essentials for celebration of the Eid-ul-Fitr culminating the holy month of Ramadan. Witnesses said shoppers including young men, women and children thronged different malls on the weekly holiday since morning braving drizzling ... Read more

Bangladesh ranks the highest among the countries Indians trust while Pakistan ranks the lowest, according to a recent survey conducted in India. CNN-IBN-The Hindu Election Tracker Survey, conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, reveals that while 37 percent of voters feel that relations with neighbours have become better

Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Friday morning called on the Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh in New Delhi, and underscored the need for the early resolution of the outstanding issues, a ministry press release on Friday night said. The Foreign Minister also apprised the Indian Prime Minister of the progress made in ... Read more

NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL with Rangamati Correspondent Rangamati, July 26: A team of the Bangladesh Army, led by Maj. Tajul Islam, on Friday rescued five persons — four officials of B-Technology and a contractor of Teli-talk — who were kidnapped by armed cadres of tribal groups on July 8. The five were identified

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday alleged that prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy has got advance ‘information’ about rigging in the next general elections. BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi at a news briefing at the party central office said the comments made by Joy about the results of next elections

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, leaves Dhaka for Saudi Arabia today to perform umrah at the invitation of the Saudi government. She will stay in Madinah from July 28 to July 31 to say prayers at Masjid Al-Nabawi and say prayers at the grave side of the Prophet Muhammad (SM), the BNP chairperson’s

An online connectivity would be established between the Bangladesh Finance Intelligence Unit of Bangladesh Bank, the Anti-Corruption Commission, home ministry, finance division and National Board of Revenue to deal with money laundering and terror financing. A committee is working on the establishment of

A man suspected of being involved in snatching was beaten to death at Dattapara of Tongi in Gazipur on Friday. The identity of the deceased could not be immediately established. The police and local people said that a group of snatchers took away the bag about 11:00am from a woman who was carrying Tk 30,000. ... Read more

The prison authorities faced problems for Thursday when they had received 18 transsexuals arrested in an extortion case on Wednesday. A metropolitan magistrate’s court in Dhaka sent the transsexuals, mostly dressed in saris, to the Dhaka central jail on Thursday afternoon in the case the managing

A Jalalabad police sub-inspector in Sylhet was suspended on Thursday for his alleged involvement in holding a businessman to ransom. Additional deputy commissioner Mohammad Ayub of Sylhet Metropolitan Police said that subinspector Alamgir was suspended for his suspected

Sundarban has gradually been deforested on the northern part although the dominance of green is recovering on its southern front hit by Sidr and Aila. A recent study by the Soil Resource Development Institute unveils that an area of about 50,000 hectares of the country’s mangrove forest has been

The low over the Northwest Bay off Bangladesh-West Bengal coast has become a well- marked low. It moved northwestwards and now lies over Gangetic West Bengal and adjoining areas. Under its influence steep pressure gradient persists and deep convection is continuing over the North Bay, a weather bulletin said on Friday.

Five of renowned public universities can provide only a fourth of their girl students with residence in halls, forcing many to share seats in the halls. A half of the girl students need to live outside the campuses by spending money lot more than others do. In the face of growing accommodation crisis, girl

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said that her government has been taking the country ahead with specific work plan as its aim is to ensure sustainable development. “We are striving hard to build Bangladesh as a middle income country by 2021 and we have already achieved significant progress to this end,” she said. She ... Read more

A Dhaka court on Thursday sent controversial Awami League (AL) lawmaker Golam Maula Ron to jail, rejecting his bail plea in connection with a case of attempt to murder, assault and vandalism. Rony had beaten up two television journalists at his office on Saturday. Dhaka metropolitan magistrate SM Ashiqur Rahman passed the order when police

BNP senior vice chairman and eldest son of opposition leader Khaleda Zia Tarique Rahman has observed that restoring the caretaker government to ensure free and fair election should get more priority to BNP leader and activists than taking preparation for general election. Addressing an Iftar party organised at a hotel in central London, Tarique presented

Although the three-day annual conference of deputy commissioners (DCs) ended on Thursday, no resolution was adopted regarding the DCs’ demand to amend the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), which would allow summary trial for petty offences. Law minister Shafique Ahmed, however, assured the DCs that the government would amend the existing

Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia on Thursday called upon the government to restore the non-party caretaker government (CG) system by amending the constitution immediately to ensure a level playing field for all during the next general elections. She made it clear that the demand of restoration

The arrest of Golam Maula Rony, a lawmaker of the ruling Awami League, is a manifestation of the government’s respect for the country’s mass media, said information minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Thursday. “It is an unpardonable offence to physically assault media persons. Whoever is involved in such an offence, whether a minister or a ... Read more

At least 10 people were injured, and one of them was bullet hit, in a clash held between the activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and police on the Jagannath University (JnU) campus on Thursday. Eyewitness said, hundreds of activists of JnU JCD unit brought out a procession on the campus at around 11.30 am ... Read more